Hard Drives vs Mainboards

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Hi all

How do I determine, the size hard drive a mainboard can handle ?
Ex : 486, Pentium, PII, PIII, & P4 Mainboards..

Thanks
 
Hi all

How do I determine, the size hard drive a mainboard can handle ?
Ex : 486, Pentium, PII, PIII, & P4 Mainboards..

Thanks
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Visit the makers's site or ask on the chip set of the boards news
group :)
 
John said:
How do I determine, the size hard drive a mainboard can handle ?
Ex : 486, Pentium, PII, PIII, & P4 Mainboards..
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Check the BIOS updates on the web, especially if there's a list of previous
releases mentioning the purpose of them (like recognition of a bigger hdd)
or a suck it and see approach (plug it in and see whether it gets
recognised).
 
John said:
Hi all

How do I determine, the size hard drive a mainboard can handle ?
Ex : 486, Pentium, PII, PIII, & P4 Mainboards..

Thanks
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John;

A rule of thumb I've used from experience:
486's 540 MB
Pentiums 2.2GB
PII 8GB
balance largest drives available (could be corrected here).

As a poster pointed out, the BIOS dictates what the board can see. That's
why Promise and SIIG controllers came along; they see larger hard drives in
older machines.

Rule of thumb.

Doug
 
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